A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon, or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great moral teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
More by C.S. Lewis
- C. S. Lewis’ Letters to Children
- A Grief Observed
- Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
- The Great Divorce
- Weight of Glory and Other Addresses
- Abolition of Man
- Screwtape Letters
- God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
Books About C.S. Lewis